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Moviegoing and Golem-Making: The Case of Blade Runner
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TO GO TO A FILM IN A CERTAIN MOOD IS to yearn for Eden, the world redeemed beyond decay and the self restored to a grace. Viewed in this light, the exquisite forms on the screen-a Grant or Loy-prove realizations of the potential for truth and beauty and goodness that most of us possess but fail to actualize. But in worshipping these artificial shapes, one risks experiencing the opposite of Eden: imprisonment in the superficial conventions of the fallen world. Grant and Loy as they appear in the picture-house are crass commodities as much as ideal models, tools of greed as much as holy ...
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Blade Runner.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; Scott Bukatman. Blade Runner. BFI Modern Classics. London: British...Scott Bukatman's discussion of Blade Runner is no exception. He is genuinely...an important part of the story of Blade Runner and takes up nearly half the space...
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If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes: destabilized spectatorship and creation's chaos in blade runner.(Critical Essay)
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents
; ...of Ridley Scott's futuristic drama, Blade Runner (theater release, 1982; director's cut...make robots, sheep, even human beings? Blade Runner poses these questions in Los Angeles...life-span. Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a Blade Runner, a member of the special police force...
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Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner.
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies
; ...know about the film of Philip K. Dick's Blade Runner. There is lots of anecdotal material...see Judith Kerman, ed. Retrofitting Blade Runner [1991], reviewed in Utopian Studies...scene by scene, the manner in which Blade Runner was constructed during principal photography...
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 "USA Today (Magazine)")
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The cinema of human obsolescence. (science fiction films and society) (Column)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine)
; ...ott's masterful 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner has reminded audiences not only of the...notably Mike Davis' City of Quartz) cite Blade Runner for its insights into L.A. as a fragmented...retelling of the Frankenstein story to date, Blade Runner also deals with the ...
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The halfway mark.(Follow-Up)
Magazine article from: Reason
; ...would be like in 2008. She selected a Blade Runner theme for her meditations. The central question of Blade Runner, she writes, is, What makes us human...biotechnology revolution that gives Blade Runner its plot and today's front pages their...
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Dick, Philip K.: Blade runner.(Do androids dream of electric sheep?)(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Audiobook review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt
; DICK, Philip K. Blade runner. (Do androids dream of electric sheep?) Read by Scott Brick. 8...and life to the characters and moving the action along. The film Blade Runner was based on this classic tale by Dick. Mary Purucker, Beverly...
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Brit movies get big, brash and American.
Magazine article from: Interview
; ...demonstrating his ability to direct a British Blade Runner, he has made a stylish but insubstantial...Jesus Jones pump out the soundtrack. If Blade Runner visualized L.A.'s blighted future, Shopping...and A Clockwork Orange as much as from Blade Runner. The Young Americans is an ...
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Young and beautiful. (rock at Princeton University) (Media Kids) (Column)
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...for the first time that Ridley Scott's Blade Runner only masquerades as a human/android...the rights of a replicant might be, Blade Runner is really preoccupied with the alienness...one at Princeton mentioned. After all, Blade Runner could also be read as an allegory of...
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 "Skegness Standard (Skegness, England)")
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Slash-proof hoodie sold to Skegness resident as knife attack fears grow.
Newspaper article from: Skegness Standard (Skegness, England)
; A STAB hoodie has been sold to at least one person in Skegness, the company Blade Runner has revealed. Blade Runner, based in Romford, hit the headlines because it makes slash-proof school uniforms and leisurewear to...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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BRIEFLY.(Ticket)(SIDESHOW)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
; ...show this week at Bijou Yet another version of Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi noir thriller Blade Runner, returns to the big screen this weekend. Blade Runner: The Final Cut includes extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects, but Time...
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